There is a scholarly theory that proposes films are always telling the story of their creation, singing an endless song about their own history. That seemed to ...
I mean, you know what you’re getting by now, right?
Did you see any of the other Transformers movies? They are all unified in sensibility of craft, story, an...
Is there a director more generous to his characters than Stephen Cone? Watching his films, one gets a sense that he doesn't use the medium simply to tell storie...
I know I'm in the critical minority when admitting my enjoyment of the Cars franchise, but I honestly do. It's not even that I am a "car guy" either—I've never ...
Much of what tantalizes about the seemingly straightforward drama Harmonium is what makes it so difficult to describe. It is nominally a domestic drama, centeri...
Focusing on a year in the life of three adult students -- Melissa, Greg and Shynika -- enrolled in Indianapolis’ Excel Center, a publicly-funded high school for...
It's taken five years for Lucky (Bari Kang) to save the money and find the footing — no matter how much illegal activity both pursuits warranted — necessary to ...
In 2003, the Oakland Police Department found themselves placed under federal oversight for charges of misconduct and civil rights abuses. Oakland PD’s deplorabl...
With a tip of the hat to Jacques Tati, Charlie Chaplin, and Jacques Demy, husband/wife team Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel’s Lost in Paris is a whimsical, almo...
The Book of Henry is notable only as a new addition to a canon of films that are bizarre in an extraordinarily specific way. These are the mainstream movies, th...
